I feel Tolkien achieved his goal in the way I feel a "northern air" while reading The Lord of the Rings. The English feeling Tolkien wanted to invoke definitely comes through in his writing.
As for rampaging...no, but I will say, everytime I read I anxiously await the day when I will take up my sword, unshealth it, and slay some orc. Maybe lead a rebellion to freedom against corruption. All while slaying some orc.
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"Loud and clear it sounds in the valleys of the hills...and then let all the foes of Gondor flee!" -Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring
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